Obyknovennoye chudo

11.20.09

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Obyknovennoye chudo (2)
Myra and I are still watching Idiot. One more session to go. But I need something to watch while running on the elliptical machine, so for that I've been re-watching Obyknovennoye Chudo. With the music and all the weird scene changes it's a good one to accompany physical activity. Speaking of strange twists, this is one I missed before. It's a scene to make you go, "Huh? Where did that come from?" It takes place at the remote hunting lodge in the mountains. It's a scene that has nothing to do with anything that has gone before, as far as I ...
05.30.08

Obyknovennoye chudo
Obyknovennoye chudo (6)
We're well over halfway through watching An Usual Wonder on YouTube. It's hard to know what to make of it. Just when we think we're getting the idea of what it is, it does something unexpected. There is music that might be from an old James Bond movie, but what is that with a magician and scenes from the wild west (or east, in the case of a Russian movie)? The magician and his wife are definitely not a Usual Magician and spouse. And it's not a Usual Bear-turned-into-a-man. The role of king seems made ...

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